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Some argue that bitcoin can be considered a digital property, a kind of virtual gold. If so, then the question arises - whether the technology can be used to create a fully digital landscape?
Project developers called Urbit spent most of the past decade in an attempt to answer that question. It is through this concept was developed by a startup called Tlon, attracted support from the Silicon Valley in the face of the team co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz (Andreessen Horowitz) and co-founder of PayPal, Peter Thiel (Peter Thiel).
Urbit is a network of personal cloud computers, which, according to its creators, is aimed at the creation of images, in which people can create their own server without having to go through the trouble of performing a complex server infrastructure.
Described as the creators of the virtual city, the project refers to the mid-2000s and is the brainchild of Järvinen Curtis (Curtis Yarvin), programmer, which incited controversy in the past, neo-reactionary political writings under the name of Mencius Moldbug. Despite attracting criticism over the years, the project is moving forward aggressively, and yesterday completed the sale of the original server addresses.
So how it is related to bitcoin and blokcheyn?
From the online documentation it makes it clear that he does not use the actual Urbit blokcheyn (although he does have some affinity through its peering network). Yet in the draft report it is often referred to himself bitcoin, and in an interview with co-founder Tlon Galen Wolfe-Pauly (Galen Wolfe-Pauly) argued that Urbit could become an ideal platform for running bitcoin node and application.
Wolf Pauli said:
"Blokcheyn is of great benefit when the nodes manage real users. Urbit well suited to address this issue "
What is the Urbit
The project consists of several components: the virtual machine (called «Nock»), operating system ( «Arvo«), a programming language ( «Hoon«) and peer to peer networks ( «Ames«).
The report is to describe the hierarchy Urbit included galactic images. From galaxies to stars to comets Urbit seen as a virtual universe.
As for real interaction with Urbit, Wolfe-Pauly said that it depends on user preferences. Mobility, he said, is a key element of its design.
"If you want to install Urbit locally, then you can either pay someone to host it in the cloud, or easily do it myself," - he explained. "Or, if you're really concerned about privacy, it is not difficult to install it yourself on Linux»
The project is still in its early stages of development.
Wolf Pauli said at the moment, especially developers interested in using Urbit. In the project there is currently a test mode, and can be downloaded today.
Bitcoin and Urbit
In addition to its peer nature of the concept of shared Urbit bitcoin as a scarce resource. The identity of the network is artificially limited, and earlier this week, the team sold 1,020 Urbit stars for $ 256 apiece, the project network 209 to $ 100.
Today, Urbit not share globally distributed nature of bitcoin, and in its report it describes in general terms so that the hierarchical structure of the universe is different from Urbit level model playground as described in Article bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto.
Urbit more centralized, although Pauli Wolf says that it needs to grow the ecosystem and the overall structure of the network Urbit should become more developed.